Notes on cloud costs, architecture and building more with less.
One cloud service per article: how it works, what it costs and how to pay less for it.
Amazon Bedrock pricing: how to cut the bill
What runs behind an Amazon Bedrock call, why the model you pick decides most of the bill, and the levers AWS documents for tokens, tiers, caching and capacity to pay less, priced with the list prices of the Paris Region.
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AWS Cost Explorer: reading your bill
What AWS Cost Explorer shows and where its data comes from, what its own API and granular data cost, and how to use it with the practices AWS documents to find and cut AWS spend.
ReadAmazon DynamoDB pricing and how to cut it
How a DynamoDB table turns item size into billed units, what on-demand and provisioned capacity, indexes and backups cost, and the levers AWS documents to pay less, priced in Paris.
ReadAWS Graviton pricing: what you save
What AWS Graviton is, how much less it costs than Intel or AMD on each AWS service in the Paris Region, and the official levers to move to it and cut the bill.
ReadAmazon CloudFront: pricing, price classes and how to cut the bill
What a CloudFront distribution bills beyond data out and requests, how price classes, the cache hit ratio and the flat-rate plans change the bill, and the levers AWS documents to pay less, priced from the AWS Price List.
ReadAmazon EKS: pricing, extended support and how to cut the bill
What runs under an EKS cluster, what the cluster fee, the nodes, extended support and the network each charge for, and the levers AWS documents to pay less, priced with the list prices of the Paris Region.
ReadAWS Lambda: pricing, memory and how to cut the bill
What runs a Lambda function and when the meter runs, what the bill holds besides requests and GB-seconds, and the levers AWS documents to pay less, priced with the list prices of the Paris Region.
ReadAWS NAT Gateway and data transfer: pricing and how to cut the bill
What a NAT gateway and the data transfer around it charge for, how traffic leaves a VPC under the hood, and the levers AWS documents to pay less, priced with the list prices of the Paris Region.
ReadAWS EC2: how it works and how to cut its cost
What runs under an EC2 instance, what you pay for while it runs and after it stops, and the levers AWS documents to pay less, priced with the list prices of the Paris Region.
ReadAmazon RDS: pricing, Multi-AZ, backups and how to cut the bill
What runs under an RDS database, what each line of its bill charges for (instance, storage, backups, Multi-AZ, old engine versions), and the levers AWS documents to pay less, priced with the list prices of the Paris Region.
ReadAmazon S3: storage classes, pricing and how to cut the bill
What S3 stores and how, what each storage class charges for besides the gigabytes, and the levers AWS documents to pay less, priced with the list prices of the Paris Region.
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